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      "summary": "Granite 4.2 3B is IBM's open-weight dense reasoning model of 3.7B parameters, post-trained from Granite 4.1 3B Base, with switchable thinking, tool calling and a 131,072-token context, published in BF16, FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX under Apache 2.0.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.md",
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      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-4-2-3b.json",
      "repo": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b",
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        {
          "registry": "huggingface",
          "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-fp8"
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        {
          "registry": "huggingface",
          "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4"
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        {
          "registry": "huggingface",
          "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-nvfp4"
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        {
          "registry": "huggingface",
          "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-q4-mlx"
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          "registry": "ollama",
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      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. None of IBM's 4.2 3B repositories is gated (checked 2026-10-21). The files carry a sigstore signature (model.sig) that IBM documents how to verify.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. watsonx.ai lists Granite 4.1 models but not 4.2, and DeepInfra is the only inference provider Hugging Face maps for it. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 7.3 GB for the BF16 files and 2.2 GB for Ollama's Q4_K_M build (checked 2026-10-21).",
      "priceSummary": "Free",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
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      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-21"
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      "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b",
      "capabilities": [
        "model.open-weights"
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        "open-weights",
        "model",
        "dense",
        "small",
        "reasoning",
        "tool-calling",
        "multilingual",
        "apache-2.0",
        "safetensors",
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        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 0,
        "ranked": false,
        "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools",
        "rankOf": 1197,
        "categoryRank": 49,
        "methodology": "0.6",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "interface": 85,
          "reach": 95,
          "risk": 55,
          "upkeep": 92
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          "tasks"
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          "confidence": "high",
          "date": "2026-10-21"
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          "Apache 2.0 with nothing added, ungated, signed with sigstore in IBM's own organisation",
          "2.2 GB as Ollama's Q4_K_M build, with IBM's own FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX builds",
          "Runs in llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers",
          "Tool format and parser documented for vLLM and SGLang, with several calls a turn",
          "Thinking that turns off or runs at low effort per request",
          "A machine-readable disclosure of the training datasets with sources and sizes"
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          "No safety results published for 4.2, and only general safety cautions",
          "No documented JSON or schema output",
          "The card's vLLM route loads a parser plugin from the repository",
          "Only one inference provider, and watsonx.ai doesn't list 4.2",
          "No knowledge cut-off, and Granite 4.1 3B carries no note that 4.2 replaced it"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Start it with `ollama run granite4.2:3b`; set options.num_ctx in the request, since Ollama's default context is short and the model takes up to 131,072",
          "With vLLM 0.32.0 or later, serve `ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b` with `--reasoning-parser granite_thinking_parser --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --enable-auto-tool-choice`; that release has the parser built in, so the card's `--reasoning-parser-plugin ./granite_thinking_parser.py` isn't needed",
          "With SGLang 0.5.18 or later, `--reasoning-parser auto --tool-call-parser auto` resolve to IBM's recommended parsers, and the reasoning comes back in reasoning_content",
          "Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 for every mode, as IBM requires",
          "Pass `enable_thinking` false for direct answers or `low_effort` true for short reasoning, through chat_template_kwargs on an OpenAI-compatible server",
          "Earlier turns' thinking is stripped by default (`truncate_history_thinking`), so pass it false to keep reasoning in multi-turn history",
          "For JSON, use the runtime's guided decoding, since IBM documents no JSON mode for 4.2",
          "Verify the files with `python -m model_signing verify sigstore` and IBM's identity, per IBM's signature guide"
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        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
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            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
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        "checked": {
          "categories": {
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            "reach": "2026-10-21",
            "risk": "2026-10-21",
            "upkeep": "2026-10-21"
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          "last": "2026-10-21",
          "oldest": "2026-10-21",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
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        "install": "ollama run granite4.2:3b\n# or, with vLLM 0.32.0 or later:\nvllm serve ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b --max-model-len 131072 \\\n  --reasoning-parser granite_thinking_parser \\\n  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --enable-auto-tool-choice",
        "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat \\\n  -d '{\"model\": \"granite4.2:3b\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'"
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/granite-4-2-3b"
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        "granite-switch"
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        "goodFor": "Small dense reasoning model for tool calling, coding and multilingual chat, with thinking that is on, off or short per request.",
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            "who": "publisher",
            "precision": "fp8",
            "sizeGB": 4.19,
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            "runsOn": [
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          {
            "name": "granite-4.2-3b-nvfp4",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-nvfp4",
            "who": "publisher",
            "precision": "nvfp4",
            "sizeGB": 2.81,
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            "format": "safetensors",
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            "note": "GPTQ calibrated with LLM Compressor, per IBM's blog"
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          {
            "name": "granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4",
            "who": "publisher",
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            "note": "IBM's GGUF repository also holds Q2_K to Q6_K, Q4_0, Q4_1, Q5_0, Q5_1 and BF16 files; Q4_0 is the smallest 4-bit GGUF at 2.13 GB"
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            "name": "granite-4.2-3b",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b",
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        "legalEntity": "International Business Machines Corporation (per IBM's naming guidance, as read for granite-guardian)",
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        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b/commits/main",
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          "IBM's Granite docs page for 4.2 links the ibm-granite collection on Hugging Face and the GitHub repository, and the docs site says it is no longer updated. The domain date is carried from the granite-guardian check.",
          "The ibm-granite organisation (209 members) isn't verified on the Hub, which the calibration doesn't require.",
          "Nothing is hosted for this listing, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.",
          "The changelog is the Hugging Face commit history, 15 commits from 7 August to 20 October 2026, most titled only \"granite-4.2\".",
          "www.ibm.com/.well-known/security.txt is present with PSIRT contacts and expires on 21 November 2026.",
          "Released on 25 August 2026 by the card and IBM's blog, which firstReleased uses. The repository and its weight files date from 7 August 2026, the date BATCH.md and the IBM family page used before 21 October."
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        "score": 87
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.json"
    },
    "answer": "ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 0 of 4 scored categories. Granite 4.2 3B leads on reach, risk, agent interface and documentation and upkeep.",
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      "summary": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B is BottleCap AI's fine-tune of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B that shortens its reasoning traces, a 27B dense vision-language model on Hugging Face under PolyForm Small Business 1.0.0, with a gated main repository.",
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          "registry": "huggingface",
          "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-FP8"
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        {
          "registry": "huggingface",
          "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF"
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        {
          "registry": "huggingface",
          "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4"
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          "registry": "huggingface",
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        {
          "registry": "huggingface",
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        {
          "registry": "huggingface",
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      "authNotes": "The BF16 and FP8 repositories are gated (gated auto). A Hugging Face account must accept the card's conditions and give a name, a company and an email before the files open, with automatic approval. The GGUF, NVFP4, NVFP4A4-AWQ, MLX and RCO GGUF repositories were not gated on 21 October 2026, though their cards carry the same request form in their metadata (checked 2026-10-21).",
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      "pricingNotes": "Free for personal non-commercial use and for companies with fewer than 100 people and under 1,000,000 USD (2019, inflation-adjusted) revenue, under PolyForm Small Business 1.0.0 plus BottleCap's personal-use grant. Larger organisations need a separate commercial licence from BottleCap AI. Running it costs the hardware, 55.6 GB for BF16 and 15.5 GB for the smallest 4-bit GGUF (checked 2026-10-21).",
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        "http": "curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions \\\n  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n  -d '{\"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'"
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            "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4A4-AWQ",
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            "precision": "nvfp4",
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            "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit-DWQ",
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            "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q6_K",
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        "granite-4-2-3b": 85,
        "key": "interface",
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        "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b": 70,
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        "edge": "granite-4-2-3b",
        "granite-4-2-3b": 92,
        "key": "upkeep",
        "name": "Documentation and upkeep",
        "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b": 53,
        "weight": 10
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      "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b": "A Qwen3.8-27B with shorter reasoning, for agent work where thinking tokens cost time, and BottleCap's 4-bit GGUF runs in about 19 GB. The main limits are the licence, which needs a paid licence above 100 people or 1,000,000 USD revenue, a gated main repository, and no safety results or training-data description."
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  "markdown": "ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 0 of 4 scored categories. Granite 4.2 3B leads on reach, risk, agent interface and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Granite 4.2 3B: grade C, 59.8/100, rank #57 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-4-2-3b.json\n- ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B): grade C, 61/100, rank #50 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json\n- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 2870 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Granite 4.2 3B (C)\n\nGood for: Agents on small hardware that want a permissive reasoning model for tool calls and coding, with thinking they can switch off\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 95 against 75\n- Risk, 55 against 45\n- Agent interface, 85 against 70\n- Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 53\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.8 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No safety results published for 4.2, and only general safety cautions\n\n### ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) (C)\n\nGood for: Small teams and individuals running Qwen3.8-27B for agent or reasoning work who want shorter thinking traces on one 24 GB GPU or Mac.\n\nWatch for: PolyForm Small Business licence, free commercially only below 100 people and 1,000,000 USD (2019) revenue\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Granite 4.2 3B | ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 95 | 75 | Granite 4.2 3B +20 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 55 | 45 | Granite 4.2 3B +10 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 85 | 70 | Granite 4.2 3B +15 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 92 | 53 | Granite 4.2 3B +39 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **59.8 · C** | **61 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Granite 4.2 3B | ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | IBM | BottleCap AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | PolyForm-Small-Business-1.0.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |\n| Customer content may train models |  |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |\n| Agent reviews | 3.8/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Granite 4.2 3B.** A small reasoning cousin for tool calls, coding and multilingual chat that runs almost anywhere, from a 2.2 GB Ollama build to vLLM and SGLang, under plain Apache 2.0 with signed files and a dataset disclosure. Thinking turns off or shortens per request. It has no published safety results and no documented JSON mode.\n\n**ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B).** A Qwen3.8-27B with shorter reasoning, for agent work where thinking tokens cost time, and BottleCap's 4-bit GGUF runs in about 19 GB. The main limits are the licence, which needs a paid licence above 100 people or 1,000,000 USD revenue, a gated main repository, and no safety results or training-data description.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Granite 4.2 3B\n\n1. Start it with `ollama run granite4.2:3b`; set options.num_ctx in the request, since Ollama's default context is short and the model takes up to 131,072\n2. With vLLM 0.32.0 or later, serve `ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b` with `--reasoning-parser granite_thinking_parser --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --enable-auto-tool-choice`; that release has the parser built in, so the card's `--reasoning-parser-plugin ./granite_thinking_parser.py` isn't needed\n3. With SGLang 0.5.18 or later, `--reasoning-parser auto --tool-call-parser auto` resolve to IBM's recommended parsers, and the reasoning comes back in reasoning_content\n4. Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 for every mode, as IBM requires\n5. Pass `enable_thinking` false for direct answers or `low_effort` true for short reasoning, through chat_template_kwargs on an OpenAI-compatible server\n6. Earlier turns' thinking is stripped by default (`truncate_history_thinking`), so pass it false to keep reasoning in multi-turn history\n7. For JSON, use the runtime's guided decoding, since IBM documents no JSON mode for 4.2\n8. Verify the files with `python -m model_signing verify sigstore` and IBM's identity, per IBM's signature guide\n\n### ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)\n\n1. Check the licence first, an organisation with 100 or more people or 1,000,000 USD (2019) revenue needs a commercial licence from BottleCap\n2. For files without the gate use `llama-server -hf bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`, about 17.4 GB\n3. On vLLM use `--reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_xml`, and on SGLang `--tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`\n4. Set `reasoning_effort` (xhigh, medium or low) in chat_template_kwargs, any other value makes the template raise an error\n5. Keep the base's sampling (temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 20), the GGUF card says greedy decoding can loop\n6. The GGUFs carry an MTP head, and llama.cpp builds without MTP support for this architecture may refuse to load them with a missing blk.64 tensor\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Granite 4.2 3B or ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)?\n\nThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 0 of 4 scored categories. Granite 4.2 3B leads on reach, risk, agent interface and documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"granite-4-2-3b\", \"b\": \"thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b\"}`. 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